Oncology & Cancer
Cancer survivors' experiences with financial toxicity
Many cancer survivors with high medical copayments experience financial toxicity, an economic side effect of cancer treatment.
May 6, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Children with cancer who have relapsed can get rapid access to new treatments thanks to new clinical trial
Children and young people in the UK with cancers that have come back can now access new personalized treatments quicker than ever before thanks to a national tumor biopsy sequencing platform and clinical trial funded by Cancer ...
Sep 4, 2020
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Medical research
Antiviral remdesivir prevents disease progression in monkeys with COVID-19
Early treatment with the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir significantly reduced clinical disease and damage to the lungs of rhesus macaques infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to ...
Apr 20, 2020
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Pediatrics
New research shows dual therapy upon diagnosis of MIS-C improves cardiac outcomes
A recent study by a multidisciplinary team of cardiologists and infectious disease specialists at Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) found that pediatric patients suffering from Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Overcoming drug resistance with EAI-432, an allosteric EGFR inhibitor for non-small cell lung cancer
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a promising new drug candidate, EAI-432, to treat non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC)driven by mutations in the EGFR gene, particularly the L858R mutation which is ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Charting a new path for pediatric thyroid cancer treatment
Thyroid cancer is the most common type of endocrine cancer in children. Because it is bilateral—affecting both sides (lobes) of the thyroid—in more than one third of pediatric patients, initial treatment typically involves ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Optimizing tobacco cessation treatment with lung cancer screening
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States, and 80% of lung cancer deaths are linked to one risk factor: smoking. While lung cancer screenings are a critical part of prevention and treatment for the disease ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
One in two cancer patients may develop long COVID, with risk higher in women
More than one in two cancer patients at a US cancer center experienced symptoms of long COVID-19 for more than six months after initial infection, according to a study published today in eLife.
Feb 7, 2023
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Medications
New drug combination doubles survival for people with bladder cancer: Clinical trial
Results from a clinical trial carried out by researchers at Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London show that a new combination of drugs doubles overall survival for patients with bladder cancer that has ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Treatment without hormone blockers improves outcomes in solitary prostate cancer metastases
For patients with solitary metastases from prostate cancer, an approach called metastasis-directed therapy (MDT)—focused treatment using surgery or radiation therapy, without androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)—can slow ...
Nov 10, 2022
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